I like to view health problems as an opportunity to become more in tune with who we are, a challenge to go more deeply within ourselves with an open heart and mind, and a good dose of humility--for if the challenge is concrete enough, we come to the point where we realize that we need to be perfectly honest and clear with ourselves if we wish to get through it. This is how illness helps us get back in balance with ourselves, and it is an old story that never gets old. When it is YOU who is going through it, it is a journey of fresh discovery.
When I began having extreme hot flashes, however, I couldn't see the opportunity. The societal imprint that hot flashes represent everything that is wrong with our western lifestyle manifesting in the body of the woman blocked my intuition for the experience.
During Susun Weed's visit to Ashland, Oregon, early in 2011, I was blessed to hear her take on the menopause. She explained that the hot flash is actually an
opportunity, a transformational process that
can lead to more self-knowing and better health. It is a chance to burn off the old, as it were, and, like the phoenix who rises from the ashes, to be born again as a more finely-wired, in tune and resolute woman, ready for the joys and jobs of this part of our lives.
Weed goes further, as she describes "menopausal metamorphosis,"
including hot flashes, as a transformation akin to the rising of the
kundalini in yoga practice.
If you feel attracted to this idea, watch her video such as this one below, and read her book on menopause. As always, Susun Weed is an innovator whose provocative challenges to society's entrenched ideas on personal development and wellness resonate for many women.
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